by Rob Stevenson | 9 May 2025 | Bulletin
Australia is fast becoming a country of contractors. Be your own boss, work when you want to, set your own rates; it sounds appealing but the reality is often very different. Anyone considering becoming a contractor should understand what they are getting into...
by Rob Stevenson | 10 April 2025 | Bulletin
It’s fair to say Australia has one of the better systems of employee protections and conditions going. This is reflected in several recent efforts by overseas employees to bring unfair dismissal and breach of general protections rights claims. Australian employees...
by Rob Stevenson | 13 March 2025 | Bulletin
The Fair Work Act National Employment Standards (NES) form the foundations of employment legal obligations in Australia. The NES apply to all employees regardless of income and cannot be contracted out of. Employees have powerful rights to make workplace flexibility...
by Rob Stevenson | 10 February 2025 | Bulletin
Let’s get one thing straight. The law does not offer a remedy for every wrongful act by an employer. There are many situations where an employee may feel an employer has treated them unfairly or wrongly. Before legal action is taken, you should consider whether...
by Rob Stevenson | 15 January 2025 | Bulletin
There’s no doubt about it. Contractors get a raw deal compared to employees when it comes to legal rights. They have no unfair dismissal rights, limited general protections rights and none of the safety net provided by the National Employment Standards and...
by Rob Stevenson | 11 December 2024 | Bulletin
There sometimes comes a point in an employee/employer workplace dispute when an employee says “I don’t want to fight the employer any longer, I just want to end the employment with some dignity and a fair settlement”. Careful thought needs to be given to any without...
by Rob Stevenson | 6 November 2024 | Bulletin
Imagine this scenario. You are called into a meeting on Friday afternoon and presented with a letter of allegations that says you are required to attend a meeting Monday morning to respond and that disciplinary action up to and including termination might occur. You...
by Rob Stevenson | 2 October 2024 | Bulletin
Clients and information should be thought of as assets worth insuring. We may be seeing the last years of contractual non compete clauses but that doesn’t mean contractual post employment restraints don’t have a role to play. They’re not perfect but, like democracy,...
by Rob Stevenson | 18 September 2024 | Bulletin
When purchasing a business, one of the decisions to make is whether to take on the employees of the business being purchased. Before you commit to transferring the employment of existing employees or offering jobs to employees, you should do your employment due...
by Rob Stevenson | 14 August 2024 | Bulletin
The best time to negotiate a good contract of employment is before you start the job. Of course, sometimes contracts are provided on a “take it or leave it” basis, or the response to proposed changes is “HR won’t let us do that”. If this occurs, you should consider...
